Radiance from the Waters: Ideals of Feminine Beauty in Mende Art (Yale Publications in the History of Art)

by Sylvia Ardyn Boone

Book Overview

The Sande Society of the Mende people of Sierra Leone is a secret female regulatory society that both guards and transmits the ideals of feminine beauty so fundamental to the aesthetic criteria in... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300048610
• Release Date: August 1990
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 302 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 7.0" x 10.1"